The Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) has decided that its president, Qazi Hussain Ahmed, and its general secretary, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, will meet its local leadership to end differences within the party. The differences surfaced between Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), two major component of the six- party religious alliance, during the local council elections when they both competed against each other in many constituencies. The agenda of a recent meeting of the party focused on the issue of promoting harmony within the party, sources told Daily Times. They said it was decided that Qazi and Fazlur Rehman would visit all those districts where both parties had contested the elections, and meet the local leaders there. They said the step would be the second one in a strategy to resolve the partyâs internal differences as the central leadership of the MMA had already imposed a ban on local and provincial leaders of the MMA from issuing statements against any member of any party of the alliance. âThese visits will start by the third week of this month and it is likely that both the leaders will address public rallies during their visit,â sources said. They said the party had adopted a policy to resolve the disputes at a local level with the help of central leaders.
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